% Total Population that is Urban (2001, UN World Urbanization Prospects)

34%

Urban Areal Extents, by Source

Nighttime Lights Data

10

Regression-estimated Extents

28

Digital Chart of the World

0

Other

0

Notes

Administrative Population Source Data:

The population figures for 1990 were based on estimates produced by Benoit Ninnin for the OECD/Club du Sahel West Africa Long Term Perspective Study (WALTPS) for 1960-90. He used these sources for 1990 population estimates:
1. Etude d''une Image - Long Terme de l''Afrique.
2. Lopez-Escartin N.: Donnees de base sur la population, Togo: CEPED, No. 4, Paris, Aout 1991.